Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-08-25
IOWA CONDENSED ITEHS
Dunlapis putting in system of water
nrlS the pynpnsa To ha $40 000

Inc lulfu annual reunion Dl the twenty
first Iowa infantry will be held at Man
chester September 10 and 10.
The school directors of Ida Grove haye
broken the deadlock by electing Rey. A.
L. Smith. who has been eight years pas.
tor of the Presbyterian church there, as
principal.
The number of pupils enrolled in 1887
at the asylum for the blind at Glenwood
was 1877; number admitted during biennial
term, 81: number graduating during
same period, IA
Rumor says Il strong syndicate of
California capitalists will buy large
number Of Cedar county farms at the low
price now prevailing.
The Keystone coal company at Angus
has all summer employed 250 men.
In taking out the rock wall of an old.
we'll at Fort Madison, William Smith lost
his life by the caving in of the well.
An O'Brien county farmer, having two
women on his hands, traded one of them
to another farmer for a COW, After a
while the woman returned to her former
home and the second farmer has entered
suit for the recovery of the cow.
This years report cf the coal inspectors
shows a large increase in the number of
tons Of coal mined in the State, it being
'.60l,274 tons. The inspectors report
the mines to be in better condition, as
regards output and management than
ever before.
They sell. corn husks at 10 cents a
hundred pounds at the canning works in
Davenport, and farmers take them away
by the wagon load.
The opera house committee at Marshall
town is only 1000 short, $22 900 having
been raised for the new building.
Two ladies were prominent candidates
for county superintendent of schools at
the republican convention at Grundy
Center. After several ballots, a dark
horse" George Conrad, defeated them.
Miss Lizzie Dottcrwineg was arrested
at Muscatine, charged with arson, setting
fire to the grain stacks of her brother.in
law. She is fifty years old, and bas spent
ten years of her life as n nun.
George Wheeler, head switchman in
the Northwestern yards at Clinton,
while pulling pin from moving freight
car Aug. 20, was knocked down and run
over, his right arm and leg were cut off.
Itp died in nhnnf Snvan hpnra r...r
August Warnebold, an old and we'll
known citizen of Davenport, drove to the
city cemetery Aug. 20 with his wife, and
when near the grave of their daughters,
committed suicide by shooting himself.
Mrs. Louis Waters. wife of farmer
living about eight miles south of Clarion,
in Wall Lake township, committed sui
eide Sunday night, August IA, by cutting
her throat with a razor Her husband
was awakened by her struggling, and
putting out his hand to arouse her placed
1t In the cash in her throat. He arose and
turned up the light as quickly as possible
finding her lying in the bed and the razor
still in her hand. He at once stepped to
the door and called for assistance. C.P
Armstrong, a near neighbor, responded at
once. but she was dead before he got into
the house. She leaves either three or
four small children; the youngest, an in
fant, was in bed with her when the deed
was done. She has been in bad health
for several years, but aside from that no
cause is known for the act
A large number of railroad ties are
being uuloaded at Cherokee.
The 8 year old son of Mrs. CHM was
drowned in the Mississippi river near
Lansing.
Wild grapes are very abundant in the
Missouri valley near Council Bluffs
1t is said that natural gas has been
discovered six miles north of Burlington.
The grist mill of J. r Lemons, at
Storm Lake, caught fire at o clock Sun.
day morning. August IA, and was entirely
destroyed. The fire company could not
do anything. 1t is thought the fire orr
ginatcd in the engine room. The mill
was valued at 1900; insurance $1,000.
II is the greatest loss that Storm Lake has
eyer suffered by fire.
John Ogburn, a farmer aged about
fifty, living near Peru, seventeen miles
southeast of Winterset, committed suicide
Saturday evening, August H. He went
out to do his chores and becoming uneasy
because of his long absence, his family
went out to the barn, and found him
hanging dead. lie had taken a dose of
Paris green before hanging himself. He
had been deranged for some time and was
in poor circumstances. He leaves wife
and some grown children.
Secretary Shafrer, OF the State Agri-
cultural Society, has received letter
from Mr.. L. D. Lewis, Secretary of the
Board of Trade of San Jose, California
stating that he will have an exhibit con
sisting of fruit-green, dried, canned and
in glass-grain, leather wooden goods,
wood, and other articles, to show what
Santa Clara county can produce. !
Mt. Ayr furnishes the following touch
ing accident which occurred at that place
Aug. IA, while some five or six boys
were out violating the Sabbath day at a
pond. They were all engaged in playing
Jesse James with revolvers, when one in
the hands of Joey Sellards, 12-year-old
boy, went crashing through the brain of
Johnnie Spears, aged 16. He was killed
instantly, and therefore two homes are
darkened EkE
Willie Grouse, of DEBORAH. had close
call few days ago. He was on one OF
the cars at the c., Nj. g. St. p. r. r. de-
pot while they were switching, and the
cars starting suddenly he fell between
two Of them, vita an arm and head on
the rail, Fortunately the fireman saw
him fall and the cars were stopped at
once, so that he escaped with only a
crushed arm: but moment later and he
would have had bis head cut off.
The LeMars Globe says: When the
town was laid ont six young ladies went
up on a specia Ear with the officials of
The road; their nlmes were, respectively,
Laura. En- mN Mary, Annie, Rose and
Susan. By TAXI To- the first le,tc- of each